Death and the Maiden Summary

Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden is a moral thriller about a woman, Paulina, who believes that a stranger who comes to her home is the doctor who, under a military dictatorship, tortured and raped her many years before. (The play's title is taken from a piece of music by Franz Schubert; Paulina loved the piece but grew to revile it when it was played repeatedly during her torture sessions.) Dorfman began writing...

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Death and the Maiden
by Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman was born in Argentina in 1942, and two years later moved with his family to the United States. His father relocated the family to Chile in 1954 a...
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In plays unlike in other written works, the author has one different vary powerful and effective tool at his disposal, for...
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